By Michael Floyd, AEC Sustainability Strategy, Autodesk.   It’s a well understood conundrum: as projects progress through review cycles and become more detailed, the cost of design changes increases while the potential energy saving benefits from passive strategies decreases. If these...

This blog was originally posted by Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC) and written by Maria Stamas and Pierre Delforge of NRDC. San José has successfully reached for a modern, more sustainable building energy code; its City Council voted today to...

Written by Kathy Berg, Partner at ZGF Architects. Photo Credit: Tim Griffith As the need to combat climate change intensifies, desire for sustainable structures drives architecture toward deep efficiency. Our clients are increasingly interested in exploring net zero energy and...

This blog was originally posted by NRDC on September 5, 2019. Written by David Goldstein, Energy Co-Director, Climate & Clean Energy Program at NRDC. Achieving Zero Net Energy (ZNE), which means that a facility produces as much renewable energy on-...

“Many people already know the environmental benefits green buildings bring to our communities and our world, but few understand the economic benefits of this investment. Zero energy buildings can be constructed or retrofitted for minimal upfront costs, if any, and owners...

by Katie Sloan, SCE Director of eMobility and Building Electrification.   Recently we started working with a customer who wanted us to advise him on how to electrify his home.  It was, he told us, an older home, built in 1987. ...

This blog was originally posted by E4TheFuture on August 28, 2019. Written by Andrew Chase, Policy Associate at E4TheFuture. Across the United States, local and state governments have committed to reducing carbon emissions and increasing renewable generation. One significant source...

This blog was originally posted by World Resources Institute on February 4, 2019. Written by Emma Stewart and Eric Mackres. Cities are currently both climate-culprit and climate-victim. They are already responsible for 70 percent of global energy-related greenhouse gas emissions...

We are thrilled to announce that Commissioner Andrew McAllister will be a keynote speaker at our 2019 Getting to Zero Forum. Commissioner McAllister was appointed to the California Energy Commission by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. in May 2012 and...

The DLC’s Networked Lighting Control System Technical Requirements V4.0 took effect in June, with a 12-month grace period for products qualified under the V3.0 requirements. It reflects two rounds of stakeholder comments, as well as robust discussion at the DLC’s...